Storage Virtualization

Storage Virtualization refers to the process of completely abstracting logical storage from physical storage. The physical storage resources are agregated into storage pools, from which the logical storage is created. With storage virtualization, multiple independent storage devices, that may be scattered over a network, appear to be a single monolithic storage device, which can be managed centrally. Storage Virtualization is commonly used in SANs.

This Analyst Insight by the Aberdeen Group highlights the rise of virtualization and then discusses what leading organizations can do to adjust their data protection and recovery practices to take advantage of this major change.

Taneja Group recently carried out a competitive assessment to put Acronis vmProtect 6 against Veeam in a head to head shoot-out. vmProtect 6 delivered across the board - demonstrating better simplicity, higher performance, and lower resource consumption.

Closing the Virtualization Loop white paper identifies the objectives in the next phase of virtual machine backup and recovery and provides recommendations on how to improve backup and disaster recovery in a hybrid IT environment.

In this paper we introduce initiatives you can put into effect to survive and thrive in our virtualized world. Then we show how Acronis virtual solutions can save administration time, lower IT expenses and improve your ability to meet both RTO and RPO goals.

View this flash demo that shows the Assess stage of the management lifecycle and how our customers are able to discover and determine where opportunities exist for consolidation and rationalization across physical, virtual, mainframe, distributed and cloud environments.

The management tools selected to support virtualization is essential to the ability of IT to grow the virtual environment without proportionately increasing the staff required to manage all of the new physical host servers and their guest VMs. Read more!

Virtualization has become all the rage for companies interested in optimizing their servers and storage systems. This shift in data center architecture allows IT organizations to reduce operational costs and increase flexibility and responsiveness to changing business demands. But in this rush to virtualize, security can fall by the wayside.

BMC helped the Dell IT group to consolidate job scheduling and job monitoring within a single dashboard, reduce by 75 percent the number of IT administrators needed for patch management, and accelerate trouble-ticket resolution with automation. Watch the customer video.

Virtualization adds a whole new level of complexity to the IT infrastructure, introducing new challenges in every step of the process – from planning to configuration and management. Read how effective service management can help tackle the challenges of virtualization in this white paper from BMC Software.

The paper discusses the agility enabled by virtualization, the resulting control challenges, and a way to meet those challenges. It describes seven major requirements for success and reviews how the BMC/VMware approach helps IT ensure control over the virtualized data center and maintain compliance with corporate policies and government regulations.

This Gilbane Group Beacon examines how large-­scale trends are changing enterprise collaboration and content sharing expectations. It defines Cloud Content Management, an emerging set of content management practices.